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...past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house in Ravello perched 200 feet above the Amalfi coast. His mornings are customarily spent writing in a room filled with leatherbound copies of all his books and framed magazine covers bearing his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According to Gore | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

...greatest landmarks: the Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building, St. Mary's and St. Andrew's cathedrals. Granite came from as far away as Scotland, sitting as ballast in passenger and cargo ships; later it was quarried at Goulburn outside Sydney, and on the southern New South Wales coast at Moruya, which provided the stone for the pylons of the Harbour Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting Its Stride | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...omnipotent United States. Her reasons for travelling in Peru were simple; she wanted to see the beauty of South America, but could not travel within her own country due to the control of various guerilla factions and paramilitary groups. Though Colombia boasts incredible natural attractions along its northern coast and within the forests of its central highlands, the farming areas are almost entirely controlled by the so-called "narcos...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Funding the Wrong War | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

From Bates College in Maine to the University of Virginia, the clan culled inspiration from the lives of students along the East Coast...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon College Guide Hits Shelves, Sells Big | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Senate front runner. It's true that Nelson, 57, has benefited among Jewish "condo commandos" from Gore's choice of Joseph Lieberman as a running mate and from the ticket's emphasis on providing prescription-drug coverage under Medicare. But the former six-term Congressman from Florida's space coast (he once rode the space shuttle) has focused less on national issues than on state concerns such as hurricanes. He admits his clashes with the insurance lobby over exorbitant storm coverage "have definitely reconsolidated" the state's fraying Democratic base. Nelson, with his TV-anchorman looks, is also aided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunshine Bellwether | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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